Kyle Gottfried
Web Infrastructure Administrator
Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Gottfried is a Web Infrastructure Administrator with 11 years of hands-on experience managing enterprise middleware and cloud-native services, currently overseeing IBM WebSphere on z/OS and RHEL alongside an OpenShift Service Mesh rollout at Auto-Owners Insurance. He brings a strong systems and backend focus informed by early work building C#.NET and WPF manufacturing interfaces, client-side reporting optimizations, and virtualized infrastructure migrations. A practical open-source contributor, he helped modernize google/yapf by removing legacy support and adding contemporary build tooling and pre-commit hooks, showing attention to maintainability and developer workflows. Based in Lansing, Michigan, he combines operational rigor with a developer’s perspective—comfortable moving between low-level platform administration and code-level improvements. Colleagues describe him as a steady problem solver who favors pragmatic refactors that reduce technical debt and streamline deployments.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Systems (BS), Computer Information Systems, 3.84, Computer Information Systems (BS), Computer Information Systems, 3.84 at Ferris State UniversityAssociate's degree, CIT-Developer, 3.3, Associate's degree, CIT-Developer, 3.3 at Northwestern Michigan College
Github Skills (9)
formatting10
text-formatting10
python10
build-automation10
cicd9
isort8
google7
formatter6
formatters6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
google/yapf
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
A formatter for Python files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 31 PRs, 162 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to improving the Python code formatting tool, YAPF. They refactored the codebase by removing support for older Python versions and deprecated features. Further, they updated the project to support modern build tools such as pyproject.toml. They also added pre-commit hooks, including isort, and streamlined the build process.
googleformatterpython-filespython
Spitfire1900/Clue-informatics-documentation
Jan 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 7 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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